Re: New reflink(2) syscall

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On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 12:15 -0700, Joel Becker wrote:
> On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 02:41:22PM -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 11:00 -0700, Joel Becker wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 12:59:39PM -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 01:35 +1000, James Morris wrote:
> > > > > Agreed, perhaps something like:
> > > > > 
> > > > > int security_inode_reflink(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *dir);
> > > > 
> > > > I'd pass the same arguments as vfs_reflink(), i.e. old_dentry, dir,
> > > > new_dentry.
> > > 
> > > 	I'm about to insert this bit.  I agree with
> > > security_inode_reflink(old_dentry, dir, new_dentry), but I note that
> > > security_path_reflink() was proposed in another email, and I'm guessing
> > > I should add both?
> > 
> > The TOMOYO folks said that calling security_path_link() would suffice
> > for their purposes.  SELinux would want security_inode_reflink() from
> > vfs_reflink().
> 
> 	I've added both.  I have no idea how to add the actual
> SELinux/TOMOYO bits, so I've just added the operations hook :-)

That's fine - we can fill in the hook implementations for our respective
modules.  You do need to add a stub function to capability.c and add a
line to security_fixup_ops() so that the function pointer is initially
set though.

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency

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